Cumbres And Toltec Shops Animated Logo

 

Cumbres And Toltec Shops Up-Dates
2005

July week-2

 

Click On Any Photo To See Large Version
Use Your Back Button To Return

Welcome to the Contributors Edition of the Shops Website.... Thanks to all my Friends who sent picture's to help keep the website interesting.. Thanks to you all... I have enjoyed every moment of this Website, it is hard at times, but I have had alot of fun and Updates like this give me a chance to recharge and catch up.. thanks to you all.. and there will be another Contributors Edition as I have quite a few more picture's to share..

Here is the Wonderfully Friendly Danielle Weber, we were very honored to meet her and hope she will someday return...

Now here is My wonderful Friends Pat Anderson and his Daughter Jess... they are on Locomotive number 60, Pat's Grandfather was A engineer for the Colorado & Southern and ran this Locomotive... If I ever win the Lottery, I am going to buy this Locomotive, rebuild it and park it in Pat's backyard.

Here is the Apple of my Eye, Jess.... There is nothing greater in this world than to have a bunch of wonderful friends in your life and I am the Luckiest Guy in the world to be a part of the Anderson Family... It is Honor than is unmatched.

The Wonderful Ladies in the Chama Office,,, to the far right is Ashley and its her Birthday the 29th of July, Happy Birthday to Ashley... she is such the Sweety, Best Wishes to her on her Birthday!!!!

Now say Hi to Engineer Jeff Stebbins Daughter Stephanie...

My wonderful adopted family the Andersons got their Locomotive 463 Model... they have a Garden railway and this thing is going to look Beautiful cruising around...

Ain't she a Beauty, Have a great time with that locomotive Pat & Annemarie, love ya Guys..

Now again thanks to Steven Dickey, here is a Shot of a locomotive sitting in Clovis, New Mexico..

It may be a Santa Fe Locomotive, not sure.. its a 0-6-0 Locomotive, Numbered 9005. Anybody have any Ideas on this Locomotive???

Now thanks to Steven Dickey, we have a few shots of the Opening Weekend train coming around Tanglefoot Curve.

I love these, its actually very rare for me to see these kinds of scenes as I am always ON the train instead of watching from the side of the tracks.

And the Train rolls into Chama, New Mexico.

Steven is on the upper loop as the Train with Me at the Controls.. I think... comes into Tanglefoot Curve.

Climbing the Grade near the Second Highway 17 road Crossing...

And leaving Los Pinos Valley for Osier..

Now we have some shots from Germany, thanks to Benjamin Haendel

I love seeing Picture's from Oversea's...

There is so much Steam around the world and I am very grateful for these picture's.

I am very Thankful to Benjamin for these shots and hope he will share a few more with us.

Thats  a Beauty of a Locomotive... Thanks Benjamin.

There's my Buddy and everybodys friend Mike May.. He's up on the old Moffat Pass line West of Denver.

Now a Collection from Steven Dickey...there's Soni putting water into 484.

Climbing Windy Point..

Looking back to the train and Coxo Curve..

A view of Tanglefoot curve...

Coming into Osier from Chama.

Here we are at Osier.

This is a Great view, love this one.

Rolling east at Milepost 294 and a good rain is building up to the East.

Making the Curve at Lava.

A view from above, looking down to Coxo Road Crossing.

Coming over the top as the train rolls thru Windy Point, Great Shot.

There's still snow on Cumbres in this picture taken in May.

A rails eye view of 484 at Cumbres.

The Train heading east from Los Pinos Tank.

And the train is heading West as it crosses Los Pinos Trestle. Thanks to Steven Dickey for these shots.

The Last picture's of the Private Railcar Train...

The Train backed into Monte Vista to visit FEC Locomotive 148.

Here comes Caritas on the rear.

If you remember from my earlier post, this is where the FEC 148 was initially parked when it first arrived in Monte Vista.

The Locomotives come across the Highway.

It was a great place to watch the train come by.

The was the end of the line for the Train, the curves are too tight beyond this point and the cars wouldn't make the curves.

I enjoyed sharing the Private Railcar Train, I hoped you had a great time with the Photos.

You can see FEC 148 in the background, that is its new home for the moment.

It was so nice to see a Passenger Train In Monte Vista, it had been a long time.

The tracks cross the road here and continue to the Barley Plant.

A look at the train sitting in Monte Vista.

Carita's at the rear of the train.

Here comes the Train, it is rolling along the Highway into Alamosa.

Passing me at the Crossing, it will make a small curve, cross highway 285 and enter the Alamosa Yard.

What a great time I had, would love to see another train like this again real soon.

This Photo was supposed to be taken around 1890,  the cut on the hill above and behind the turntable is now the Corkscrew gulch four wheel drive road.
 
 

The picture above and below was posted on the outside wall of one of the few buildings left standing in Ironton which is the town below the turntable ( not bad for a picture of a picture eh?)

Well here is David Dickey and his dog lucy. These are the first real signs of an old roadbed, the whole hike is about a mile one way. David is on the upper roadbed that shows in old pictures.
 

Close up of picture before.

The ground must have been soggy back in the 1890's too, there are stretches where the ties are really close together

Really soggy here.

Lucy listening for the sound of a far of whistle and the chuff of a train coming upgrade..........
 

Here's what's left of the turntable July the 4th 2005. 
 

Another view of the turntable.

Here you can kinda see the roadbed off to the right  going through the trees.

Not much left of walls or roof, just the iron rods that held it together.

A shot of the workings

And one from the other side

The last shot on the way out... Thanks to David Dickey for these great shots..

Once again I would like to say thanks to my Friends at Oscars Restaurant in Main Street Alamosa.. the Mexican Food is Great.. I have always loved this place and the food is great..

That Is Jammie Gallegos outside the front door of Oscars.. stop in and try a plate or two of some great chow.

Thanks to John Godfrey for these Great Shots, I Hope... "Hint, Hint" John will share more of his Photo's with us in the future...

La Junta, Colorado

Running thru the Royal Gorge.

La Veta, Colorado.. if I am correct, that Rio Grande Depot was built in 1876...

San Luis & Rio Grande Units 804 & 805.

Locomotive 487 does switching duties in Antonito...

Hey there I am, Yeah....

I ran this train and had a great time, the People onboard the Private Railcars and the Crew were the nicest People, had a great time.

The Pueblo Test Facility.. I have always wanted to go here..

On the San Luis Central in Center, Colorado.

Descending La Veta Pass, Maestas Mountain looms in the background.

The Georgetown Loop with a Diesel in Control of the train.

And ain't that Locomotive a Beauty, Thanks to John for these awesome shots.

Well some people were curious as to the survival of the Standard Gauge Freight lines in the Valley... well I think this maintenance is a good sign, the rails will be here for a while...

Contractor crews were in the Valley to work on the lines and install ties.

They were not new ties, but they were solid used wooden ties and will help to possibly remove some of the Slow Orders on the railroad..

Here are a few of the guys spiking ties...

The Crew had the Basic Equipment and they got on it and were pretty quick..

The crews are working North from the old Stone Depot in Antonito, they also worked on the Wye..

Next to the Silo's in Anotnito.

Some of the Work being done.

It was pretty cool to see so much action on this Railroad..

The Guys have since finished and have moved on, but I will have more action from the Antonito Main line..

This is the Ties Inserter Machine, that little Machine kicked Major **** if you know what I mean.. That is a awesome machine, the guy didn't even have to clear dirt, just insert the tie and he was done...

That is great little Machine, we could use something like that.. it would help us to remove the old ties that litter the railroad.

The guy on the Machine was working alone ahead of the crew moving the ties from the piles and spreading them along the line.

This is Tenth Street, right next to my House, you can see the amount of ties that were put in and we are looking North to Alamosa.

Cano's Castle's Twin Towers rise into the Air as a Rainstorms loom east of Antonito, Colorado... "Rainbow over Cano" from my Roof.

And we will close the page with another Beautiful Smile... Thanks for all your support and I hope to do this kinda page again real soon.. it was real nice to be able to build this page with all the Contributors Photograph's, hope you enjoyed it and keep sending in those picture's. Next week I will have some from Cass and a few more Warbirds...

We will see you next week, take care.. Carlos

 

Site provided & maintained by Chama Dot Com © Copyright 2000, Chama Dot Com